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Patented 10,

umreo "STATE 3 PATENT "*o-mfce ADDRESSING MACHINE 7 Albert w. Mills andFrank J. Fun-man, Endicott, and Edward J. Rabenda, Binghamton, N. Y.,as-

slgnors to International Business Machines Corporation, New York, N. Y.,a corporation of New Yon-ix Application May- 12, 1932, Serial No.442,642 I 12 Claims. (Cl. 101-48) 1 This invention relates to recordcontrolled pri-etin machines and more particularly to that class ofmachines known as addressing machine's. An object of h resent inventionis to provide an addressing machine capable of printing upon articlessuch as cards.

A further object is to rovide an addressing rachi e which'is moreflexible han prior marhlnes in respect the num er of different typesAnother obiect is to provide an addressing machine capab e of prin ingaddresses upon perforated adount'ng a d statistical cards such as thoseused in the well known Hollerith and Powers systems of accounting.

An object is to provide a machine capable of matching thestencils ors'milar address printing members with the articles printed upon throu hcontrol media placed on the article printed upon and on the printingmember, respectively. I

An object is to providea stencil prini'ig machine wi h co trol means forselecting the stencil which is to be active in printing upon an artice.

An object is to provide a stercl or similar type of addressing machinewith flexible means for selecting the printing member for operation andcon rolling printing operations by the print ing member.

Another ob ect is to provide an improved stencil printing mechanism.

Other ob ects of the invention will be pointed out in the followingdescription and claims and illustrated in the accompanying drawings,which disclose, by way of example, the principle of the Fig. 44s a rearview on a larger scale showing the card feeding clutches and theprinting clu ch. Fig. 5 is a large scale vertical section-of the ejectroTlers and card distributing mechanism.

Fig. 6 is a vertical section on the line d-tin Fig. its a verticalsection on the line 1-? in Fig. 3a. v

Fig. 8 is a vertical longitudinal section through the printingmechanism. 7

Fig. 9 is a right side elevation of the printing mechanism.

Fig. 10 is a vertical transverse section printing mechanism.

Figs. 11a and 11b comprise-electrical and mechanical timing charts,rzspectively.

Fig. 12 is a detail view of the ink control mechanism.

Fig. 13 is a vertical section through one of the secondary card hoppersshowing the secondary hopper contacts.

Fig. 14 is a plan view of the secondary hopper cot-tacts.

invention and the best. mode, which has been Figs. 1a to 1d togethercomprise a wiring diasuch further modifications and additional struc-.

ture as may be necessary to coordnate such mechanism with stencil'printhg mechanism in a. new manner. It will be understood tha thepresent invention largely relates to new combinations of elements ofstructure of an address printing machine, some of which may be old perse, producing new results, and these new combinations and results willbe clear'y set forth in the appended-claims which dlflerentiate the newfrom the old.

I. SYSTEM or Dnsrcn srmc ELscrnIcAL Pears or MACHINE In describing theinvention it will be found convenient, and will make the drawings morenearly self-explanatory, to designate the various controlling magnets,contacts, relays, and other electrical elements by means of capitalletters derived as far as'possible by taking the initial of the l

